Plugins and distribution

Module 5 · Advanced

Package skills, agents, hooks, and MCP into installable plugins, and distribute them via marketplaces.

4 lessons. Work through them in order — each one builds on the last.

Plugin structure and the manifestThe anatomy of a plugin: the manifest, and the conventional folders where skills, agents, commands and hooks are discovered automatically.

Plugin settings and stateHow plugin settings and state work, what a plugin may configure, and where its data is cached.

MarketplacesInstalling plugins from a marketplace, and publishing your own so colleagues install by name instead of copying files.

A plugin-creation workflowAn end-to-end walkthrough of creating a plugin, from first prompt to validated package, using the plugin-dev toolkit.